Judge lets E. Jean Carroll add Trump’s post-verdict remarks to original defamation case
Following the verdict that found Trump liable for defamation, the former president called Carroll a “whack job.”
E. Jean Carroll, the former columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation case against former President Donald Trump, will be allowed to amend her initial 2019 lawsuit in pursuit of millions more in damages, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Carroll’s lawyers filed the amended lawsuit in a New York court last month after Trump continued to verbally attack Carroll during a CNN town hall one day after the verdict was announced in the case.
“I have no idea who this woman [is],” Trump said during the presidential town hall, calling her claims “a fake story, made up story” and referring to Carroll as a “whack job.”
The amended lawsuit is separate from the one tried last month, in which Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. In that case, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation but did not find that he had raped Carroll. Trump, who denied the claims, called the verdict “a disgrace” and his lawyers quickly appealed.
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Judge lets E. Jean Carroll add Trump’s post-verdict remarks to original defamation case https://t.co/M3Mlir8206
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Trump’s legal woes are mounting. I guess his birthday today is not going to be a happy one this year.
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